Excerpted from Gothamist By Amina Srna As New York’s legislature struggles to reach a consensus on how to legalize recreational marijuana, some lawmakers are also seeking to expand the state’s existing medical marijuana program, which is one of...
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Excerpted from The Fresno Bee By Tim Sheehan Papé Material Handling has settled a federal lawsuit filed on behalf of Hispanic employees at the company’s Fresno location who alleged that they were victims of harassment based on their ethnicity...
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Excerpted from KCRG By Josh Scheinblum The man police say drove the wrong way on Interstate 80 near West Branch has been charged in the accident. 60-year-old Leif McGowan was charged with driving on the wrong side of a two-way highway stemming...
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Excerpted from CBS News By Kris Van Cleave The airline pilot accused in three Kentucky murders served in the U.S. Army and Army Reserve for 20 years and had been found guilty of assault on a child under the age of 16 in 2016, CBS News has...
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Excerpted from Fox 46 By Matthew Grant A FOX 46 investigation has uncovered a reported flaw in the Census Bureau’s background check system. This comes after the discovery that a registered child sex offender was given a job with the...
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Excerpted from Mashable By Morgan Sung A family trip to Disney World came to a halt when a great-grandmother was arrested for carrying CBD oil, which her doctor recommended to ease her arthritis. Hester Burkhalter, 69, was arrested on Apr. 15 and...
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Excerpted from The Oklahoman By Paula Burkes Can you tell us more about the increasing popularity to include social media in background checks? Full disclosure: Social media was in its infancy when I was interviewing for my first job. MySpace was...
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Excerpted from HR Technologist By Marco Piovesan Unemployment claims have fallen to their lowest level in fifty years. This has been driven in part by the recent boom in the technology and gig industries. Finding work is faster and easier than...
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Excerpted from azcentral.com By Lauren Castle In Arizona, child-care centers and many day camps must do criminal background checks on staff. But there is no such requirement for overnight camps. Arizona is one of 18 states that do not require...
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Excerpted from San Francisco Chronicle By Megan Cassidy Nearly 1,000 men and women in California prisons overdosed last year and required emergency medical attention in what officials acknowledge is part of an alarming spike in opioid use by...
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Excerpted from Longview News Journal By Jimmy Daniell Isaac Harrison County Sheriff’s Office officials say they stringently check employment backgrounds before hiring applicants, but what happened when Roger Valentine was hired six years ago is a...
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Excerpted from JDSUPRA By Husch Blackwell LLP Consistent with the cliché that “everything’s bigger in Texas,” the Texas legislature has introduced not one, but two separate bills relating to the privacy of personal information. Although still in...
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